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It's revival is an n^n^ problem

Do they even vaccinate against polio anymore I'm pretty sure I've never had a polio vaccine and I am pretty sure it's extinct isn't it?

Online banking does this all of the time. It's surprising how little you can actually do on their app, virtually every common banking task requires you to call them.

I had to call them to set up an automatic payment on my credit card from my savings account. Because I couldn't work out how to do it on the app. I confirmed with the support agent that you can't do it on the app.

For me the solution is simply to just not own a printer. I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to print something in the last year. Anyway that's what parents are for, their house is where you store things you only occasionally want.

The US military has long been obsessed with World War II era tactics. Which essentially amounts to "We've got more troops than you, and we've given them bigger guns".

But this strategy hasn't been relevant since the end of the Cold War. Why would I care how many soldiers you have stationed at an important facility when I can just blow said important facility up with my big bomb? Their presence is irrelevant. Now that drone combat is so prevalent the number of troops you have is even less relevant.

Iran has essentially managed to defeat the United States without any of their troops moving beyond their border.

Honestly it would be interesting just to see what he thinks constitutes good tactics. I'm guessing he would just attempt a running charge, as unsuttle and highly unlikely to succeed, does seem to be his modus operandi.

Or they could just leave the area. That would also work.

People are determined to be unhappy aren't they. It's not slop it's just not for you and that's fine but it doesn't mean you get to be dismissive of other media. There's plenty of great games that are neither slop nor firewatch style narrative games.

I know the term walking simulator is used as a bit of a pejorative but firewatch and was very interesting experience. But it was just a walking simulator and there is a limit to how much you can do with that.

If you have a compelling story you want to tell there are better mediums than video games through which to tell that story unless you have some kind of unique thing you want to do that makes interactive media more appropriate.

I can't imagine for the sake of example that Game Of Thrones would have had anywhere near the cultural impact it did if it had been released as a video game.

They did announce it at a games event

No one thinks this is fair. Little old grannys don't side load apps, so they don't need protection.

Never seen it and I've worked in banking which I would have thought it would be most prevalent. Seen lots of traditional scams, but never stuff that involves side loading apps. I think the attack surface is just not big enough to make it worthwhile.